I used Avast for several years and it seemed to be ok, apart from the annoying American voice telling me every time it updated itself. They changed it recently to an even more annoying English voice.
Anyway, regardless of that, I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on the recommendation of people here, and it too seems to be ok and is completely unobtrusive. B > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms > Sent: 19 April 2014 19:58 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: OT: Anti-Virus Software Again > > I've been using AVG for several years and up until this very morning I've > been quite satisfied with it. But it seems like they've made some kind of deal > with Yahoo and the latest update this morning has installed some kind of > Yahoo Error Handler & a Yahoo/AVG search page that I can't figure out how > to get rid of. > > I managed to get my homepage back, but every time I open a new tab it goes > to Yahoo/AVG. I don't want tabs to open to Yahoo/AVG. > > Plus, whenever any link fails to load quickly enough (which I've been having a > lot of trouble with recently) it redirects to the Yahoo Error Handler page and > there's no way to try to reload the page unless I've memorized the link URL > and can type it in manually. > > So now I'm looking for new Anti-Virus software. > > Is there a good (preferably free) Anti-Virus product that *won't* hijack my > browser for their own purposes? > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
